Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library) Hardcover Author: Visit Amazon's Carl Barks Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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From the 1940s through the ’60s, Barks wrote and drew hundreds of comics featuring Donald Duck and his relatives, but he toiled in anonymity (the only name the stories bore was that of impresario Walt Disney). In recent decades, however, he has come to be recognized as one of the masters of the comics medium. This volume in the ambitious project collecting Barks’ entire Duck Family oeuvre introduces Donald’s skinflint uncle, Scrooge McDuck, who would go on to become the most enduring of the original characters Barks created to expand into the world of the animated cartoons. Other stories depict Donald’s squabbles with his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie; his doomed get-rich-quick schemes; and his globetrotting adventures in foreign lands. These tales from 1947 exemplify Barks’ strengths: vivid yet precise cartooning; brilliant comedic dialogue and timing; and incisive characterizations (of ducks, no less). The pristine, full-color restoration of the vintage pages and the insightful historical notes do justice to these timeless tales, which remain as enthralling and delightful today as when they first appeared, nearly seven decades ago. --Gordon Flagg
About the Author
Carl Barks (1901-2000) spent most of his life in Oregon. In 1987, he was one of the three inaugural inductees in the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame (along with Eisner and Jack Kirby).
Gary Groth is the co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.
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- Series: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
- Hardcover: 216 pages
- Publisher: Fantagraphics; 1 edition (November 10, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1606996975
- ISBN-13: 978-1606996973
- Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This is the fifth published volume of this series - it also happens to be the chronologically fifth book. The completed series will contain 30 volumes published out of order.
I saw another review which described the material in this volume as pre-Golden Age (ie from before Barks hit his absolute peak period). I'd rather argue that the Golden Age actually sets in somewhere in this very book. Barks had been doing well orchestrated hilarious ten page stories for some time before 1947 (there will be a number of perfect gems in volume 3 and 4 too) - but this is book is where he starts delivering classic longer stories too. The "Vulcano Valley" story still feels like an early story that doesn't quite work - It relies too much on repetitive dated jokes about laziness and constant 'siestas' in Latin American countries. However, "The Ghost In The Grotto" and "Christmas on Bear Mountain" itself is where it all clicks into place and Barks becomes a world class master. And of course "Bear Mountain" adds the immortal Uncle Scrooge character to the Barks universe.
I've chosen to rate this volume 4 stars. The story/art material is still almost entirely 5 star 'Best ever in the medium' stuff, but the actual physical execution of the first printing of this volume has been slightly compromised due to a production scheduling conflict. It had to be sent off to a different printer than previous volumes. Fantagraphics has had a economically tough year due to losing one of its owners to cancer (the great Kim Thompson, RIP), so I can certainly understand why a Christmas-themed volume of one of their bestseller book series couldn't be rescheduled until after Christmas.
Carl Barks is one of the greatest Comic creators whom ever lived, and fantagraphics has been doing a great thing by reprinting his Disney Ducks stories.
This collection has some of his earlier Donald Duck Stories including the title Story, Christmas on Bear Mountain. This story is notable for introducing the character of Scrooge McDuck, Donald's uncle who soon took the spotlight as one of Barks' greatest creations.
In this story Uncle Scrooge has not developed his humanizing qualities he would have in later Donald Duck stories or his own solo stories, and he is very much like Ebenezer scrooge, his namesake. However barks used this character to develop some of the best stories ever made in comic book form and this was where they started for scrooge. We see Donald and the Nephews go to meet him and get into an adventure, and we begin to see what lies beneath the mean exterior. To be honest, I don't think even Barks knew what lay beneath Scrooge's exterior until the story was done and even then not fully realized until years later but it is a masterpiece of a story still.
There are some stories in here that can seem weird by today's standards and some that might have stereotypes like Volcano Valley but its important to remember when these stories were written and contrast them with the later stories Barks wrote which have much less stereotypes and come off better for it. The story itself is an interesting one once you look past the stereotypes and is a good read like all the others.
The story Ghost of the Grotto shows some of the most amazing artwork Barks did ( which is saying something) through his use of silhouettes, showing his mastery of the comic art form. The story is excellent and more importantly, we see Barks grow as a writer and artist.
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